New SLA camp in Varani

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 17:57 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has built a new camp in a housing scheme in Varani, Jaffna, local residents said. They said that
the playground of the village has also been taken over
by the SLA for the new camp. At least ten families in
the housing scheme have been moved out by the military
from the area demarcated for the camp, the residents
claimed.

Neither the village fold nor local officials were
given notice of the construction, sources said.

The housing scheme was built for local residents under
the Gramodhaya Program (village awakening) in the mid
eighties.

The SLA built a new camp in the Chavakachcheri sector
last week, after evicting resettled families from the
site.